japan has lots of violent video games, and they actually have astonishingly low gun violence. the big difference is that we have these incredibly loose gun laws that make access to the kind of weapons you just showed, suzanne, very easy. the idea that people -- that anyone other than law enforcement official should have that kind of weaponry, semi-automatic weaponry, assault rifles, is regarded by most of the world as crazy. in australia, the conservative government -- by the way, this is usually a conservative issue -- cracked down on easy access to guns and saw a 59% drop in gun homicide over the -- >> fareed, why do you suppose this is a political and a partisan issue in this country as opposed to other countries that don't seem to have that division over this issue? >> some of it does come from a tradition of gun ownership from a suspicion. the original reason for the second amendment was concerns that the british government were trying to stop americans from having arms. some of it is certainly that. but, look, places like australia have some of that individualistic spiri